Backward and Forward: Tasting Napa Cabernet Sauvignon, 1974 to Now
Snapshots from four decades of Napa Cabernet Sauvignon teach us something about taste, and tasting.
Snapshots from four decades of Napa Cabernet Sauvignon teach us something about taste, and tasting.
The Tarentaise recipe mixes tradition and innovation to create something wholly new.
Reflections on cooking an all-local Thanksgiving dinner
Pour a wine to honor its birthright. Pour it with food.
Wine is local, a lens of culture: this place, this vineyard, this grape, this grower, this heritage.
Old love needs a Bacchus wine, not a Cupid wine.
Pinot Noir is a tuning fork for terroir. Here’s one way to think about that.
This new series explores linkages of temperament and character, and suggests a new way of writing about wine.
A rumination on Pinot Noir, Nebbiolo, and what we learn by tasting.
Eleven stand-out American Pinot Noirs, wines whose fine details and ruby-citrus acidity make them brilliant dining companions.
When I judge a wine critically, I ask myself the usual questions about its color, aromas, flavors, textures, finish. But I also probe the…
Wine is visceral, sensual, sensorial. When you begin a story about wine, you must switch on your reader.